old MirOS News

The MirBSD Korn Shell (mksh) now can
not only be built by the GNU Compiler Collection, egcs/gcc 2.95, the GNU
C Compiler 2.7.2.3, and the (quite gcc-compatible) Sun Studio 12 C Compiler,
but also by the Sun Studio 5.8 C Compiler on a Solaris 10 installation.
Adding support for other vendor compilers will be much easier now.

These changes can be tested in the -current branch of mksh (and MirOS BSD)
and will be released with the next major version, mksh R30. Furthermore, a
few minor bugs were fixed and mirtoconfiguration is a little faster and more
reliable now. Some of these changes may be MFC'd to mksh R29g, whose release
date has not yet been decided upon (reads: when do you need it?).

Update: Intel's C Compiler (Version 9.1.042 and 10.0.023) work as well and
have unveiled a few minor issues. The code is now smaller due to removal of
orphaned code and variables GCC didn't spot. (I don't like icc though.) And in
unrelated news: while we do now support OpenBSD's new CVS keyword
$Mdocdate$, we will not use it, so that the mksh(1) manual
page remains usable on other operating systems.